Big budgets can be a blessing and a curse for horror movies.
On the one hand, bigger budgets theoretically mean more money for special effects.
After all, nothing sinks a good horror movie quite like hilariously unconvincing, cheap special effects.
However, there is another side to this equation that makes high-budget horror high risk.
The bigger a movies budget, the more viewers it must attract.
Despite this, the movie never received a sequel or spawned a franchise.
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This is at least in part because, for all of its budget,World War Zwasnt remotely scary.
Zack SnydersDawn of the Deadremake provided a far scarier, grislier, and bleaker zombie apocalypse in 2004.
LikeWorld War Z, SnydersDawn of the Deadgave viewers a look at the frenetic outbreak of a zombie apocalypse.
However, this earlier zombie horror was immeasurably more effective, much like28 Days Later.
The problem was that this approach made Pitts hero too safe.
However,World War Zwas ostensibly a horror movie.
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